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whatsmydisplayname

Majoritarian seems to have a double standard when it comes to "protecting America". He has a problem with government apparently spying and tracking records to possibly stop terrorists. But in an article regarding the DMV requirements, he had no problem with their strict requirements to renew or obtain a license. If you think that making it harder to obtain a legal license is a good way to keep the country safe from terrorists as you stated before, wouldn't this also help prevent terrorist attacks?

NathanHaleFan

Didn't the liberals of past decades scream about the freedoms that were in THE PROCESS of being taken away by McCarthy's & Nixon's "Enemies Lists" ?? Is Contrary1 pretending those protests didn't happen? Or maybe those cries of "The Man is OPPRESSING me!" throught he Woodstock Era were just the paranoid delusions that resulted from hippies using all those drugs & becoming irrationally paranoid?

Maybe Obama will regret legalizing marijuana, because it's primarily used by libs, and using it results in fear of & distrust of THE GOVERNMENT...

KalvaChomer

Contrary - "...we are not almost a police state, we are not on our way to becoming a police state."

That is a matter of "opinion" ! That is why the letter appears in the opinion section of the paper. You have yours and the writer has his. You're both entitled to that. Just the same, your trying to imply that the writer claims we are a police state by listing attributes of police states does not comport with what the writer said - and you were the one who said "words have meanings".

ContraryOne

You can insert all the qualifiers and adjectives you want, but that does mitigate the fact that the US is nowhere near a police state, we are not almost a police state, we are not on our way to becoming a police state. Such talk is nonsense.

KalvaChomer

Indeed they do ! The writer uses the term police state three times and precedes it each time with the words "become" or "becoming". Those words have a meaning. You can look them up in a dictionary. Better yet, look at the philosophical concept of "becoming" - as old as philosophy itself.

ContraryOne

"The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions on their mobility, and on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state."

"The South African apartheid system was generally considered to have been a police state..." "The Soviet Union and its many satellite states, including North Korea and East Germany, were notorious for their extensive and repressive police and intelligence services." ", a dictatorship, was, at least initially, brought into being through a nominal democracy, yet exerted repressive controls over its people."